cisco systems

Whither Cisco MARS?

CNET Tech blog  Wed, 12/03/2008 - 12:37pm

Cisco Systems' offering for security and compliance management has languished behind competitors, leaving the company with three choices: admit defeat, double down, or acquire a replacement product.



 

Firm to buy up patents to ward off 'patent trolls'

CNET Tech blog  Mon, 11/24/2008 - 2:25pm

San Francisco start-up RPX says it plans to buy patents for products it neither produces nor sells in order to offer legal protection for companies such as clients Cisco Systems and IBM.



 

Photos: Cisco teams up with the Yankees

CNET Tech blog  Wed, 11/12/2008 - 1:31pm

Cisco Systems and the New York Yankees hope to score big with fans by bringing cutting edge technology to the team's new stadium.



 

Cisco first quarter on target; Economy ‘very challenging’

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Wed, 11/05/2008 - 3:22pm

Cisco Systems reported fiscal first quarter earnings of $2.2 billion, or 37 cents a share, on revenue of $10.3 billion.

Excluding charges and other items, Cisco reported earnings of $2.5 billion, or 42 cents a share. Both sets of Cisco earnings (statement) included a tax gain of 3 cents a share.



 

Cisco buys into corporate IM

CNET Tech blog  Fri, 09/19/2008 - 12:57pm

Cisco Systems is buying Jabber, an open source corporate instant messaging, platform to compete more aggressively in unified communications.



 

AD: Cisco, Microsoft Discuss Progress of their Partnership

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Wed, 09/10/2008 - 7:00am
   September 3, 2008 In response to concerns from their many mutual business customers, last year the chief executives from Cisco Systems and Microsoft talked publicly about creating a more focused program to improve interoperability between their respective networking and software products.



 

Green Enterprise video: Cisco aims to cut energy use

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Thu, 08/14/2008 - 3:59pm

Networking giant Cisco Systems has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 25 percent in the next four years–with the help of technologies it’s created.

Cisco also wants to help customers do the same.



 

Freddie drags down stocks

CNN Money  Wed, 08/06/2008 - 9:02am

Stocks weakened early Wednesday as investors considered Freddie Mac's steeper-than-expected quarterly loss and Cisco Systems' better-than-expected quarterly profit one day after a big market rally.



 

Cisco Telepresence: Coming to a home near you (someday)

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Wed, 08/06/2008 - 5:30am

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers can barely keep quiet about the company’s Telepresence video effort, a high-end video conferencing system, but on the company’s fourth quarter conference call he was especially chatty.

The big takeaways: Telepresence will be a $1 billion business within five years and it will be coming to a home near you.



 

Cisco sees earnings beat forecast

BBC Finance  Wed, 08/06/2008 - 4:10am

Internet equipment maker Cisco Systems reports better-than-forecast results and signals strong growth ahead.